OCCASIONAL PAPER 41 Public - Private Partnerships in Kolkata: Concepts of Governance in the Changing Political Economy of a Region Sonali Chakravarti Banerjee May 2013 l l INSTITUTE OF DEVELOPMENT STUDIES KOLKATA DD-27/D Salt Lake City, Sector - 1 Kolkata - 700 064 Phone : +91 (33) 23213120/21 Fax : +91 (33) 23213119 e-mail :
[email protected], Website : www.idsk.edu.in In spite of this, residues of earlier notions of the social-welfare state do survive, particularly in the state of West Bengal, which is the focus of my study. In this paper, I highlight the Public - Private Partnerships in Kolkata: contestations between older and newer ideas of power- Concepts of Governance in the Changing allocation, and the challenges faced by global capital in the face of resistance by local societies. From the vantage point of Political Economy of a Region the contemporary social history of South Asia, these dialectics are worth studying, since such interrogation might lead to the Sonali Chakravarti Banerjee* creation of alternative ways of partnering the state and capital, without necessarily peripheralizing the presence of the wider Introduction civic society. Regional polities, including those in South Asia, are facing Public-Private Partnerships: Definitions and Genealogies unprecedented challenges today in the face of the steady Public-Private Partnerships (PPPs) are conventionally defined penetration of global capital into local societies. From the point as arrangements between Government and private sector of view of history, as much as of contemporary politics, these entities for the purpose of providing public infrastructure, challenges deserve to be analysed and theorized on, so that community facilities and related services.